SAN FRANCISCO & NAPA VALLEY
Wedding Videography & Cinematic Films
A wedding videographer working across the Bay Area, Napa, Sonoma, and destinations worldwide. Films that hold the sound and movement a photograph cannot: the vows, the toast that broke everyone, the moment the room stood up.
HOW IT WORKS
Photography and Cinema, Always Together
I don't offer cinema on its own. Every film is made alongside the photography, by one team that plans both from the first conversation.
That's deliberate. Two separate vendors means two crews competing for the same moment, two people giving you direction, and a negotiation over the same twenty minutes of golden light. One team means your film and your photographs tell the same story, because the same people were watching it happen.
“One of my favorite things the team captured was a short cinematic video set to perfectly curated music. It’s still hard to watch without tearing up joyfully.”
Marianne + JD
Six Sigma Ranch
What You Receive
WEDDINGS
The Highlight Film
The film you'll watch again and again. Cinematic and unhurried, built from the day as it actually unfolded rather than staged for the camera.
The Full Ceremony Film
Start to finish, uncut, with clean audio. Every vow, reading, and blessing, exactly as it was spoken.
The Full Speech Film
Every toast in full. These are the words your family will want in twenty years, and a highlight film can only hold a sentence of each.
INDIAN & MULTICULTURAL WEDDINGS
Multi-day celebrations are filmed differently, because so much of what matters happens outside the ceremony.
The Full Sangeet Film
Complete, including every speech and every performance. The dances cousins rehearsed for months deserve more than a four-second clip.
The Full Ceremony Film
Every ritual documented in full, however many hours it runs.
The Full Reception Film
Dancing, speeches, and performances, all of it, through to the end of the night.
The Highlight Film
One film that carries the whole celebration, across every day of it.
Aerial Footage
Where venue rules, weather, and FAA guidelines allow, aerial work is woven in. Coastal and vineyard venues especially earn it.
FEATURED FILMS
A Selection From Two Decades
Sausalito
Napa Valley • Planning & Decor by Lally Events
Livermore • Planning by Avant Planners
Planning by Floramor Studios
Planning by Mandy Scott Events
San Francisco • Planning by L'Ralyea Events
San Francisco • Planning by Ambiance by Tejel
Sonoma • Planning by Karin Kamb
San Francisco • Planning by Dreams on a Dime
Botanical Gardens • Planning by Avant Planners
Sonoma • Planning by Avant Planners
Planning by Kate Whelan Events
Questions About Cinema
Can we book cinema without photography?
No. Cinema is always paired with photography, by one team planning both together. It's the only way I can promise that neither one gets compromised for the other, and couples who book both receive a combined rate.
How long is a highlight film?
Most run five to eight minutes. Long enough to carry the arc of the day, short enough that you'll actually rewatch it and send it to people.
Will the film crew be visible during the ceremony?
We work the way we photograph: quietly, from the edges, with long lenses and audio set well before anyone walks in. Guests routinely tell couples afterward that they forgot we were filming.
When will we receive our film?
Films take longer than photographs. Your gallery arrives within two weeks, and your highlight film follows once the edit, color, and sound are finished to the same standard.
PHOTOGRAPHY & CINEMA TOGETHER
Let's Talk About Your Wedding
Tell me about your celebration and I'll put together a proposal that covers both, at a combined rate.